Deathloop

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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 690 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 265 out of 690
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  1. n808
    Oct 10, 2021
    0
    The game keeps crashing with Error: access violation 0xc0000005. I will come back and re-review it when the game has been patched and can actually be played. At the moment it deserves a rating of 1 for unplayability. Updated Oct 10: With no fixes for the abundance of crashes, after 3 weeks, this game has cemented itself to a score of zero.
  2. TomasLacerda
    Sep 16, 2021
    3
    The optimization of this game is beyond bad. Even with a RTX 3080 and high-end PC it shutters like crazy. Quite unplayable.
    The game is also so, so easy that's quite insulting to be honest.
    Graphics are meh.
    Story concept is interesting.
  3. deck
    May 22, 2022
    0
    sorry to say as i've been a fan of the studio's games since 2006 but other than the graphics and voice acting the game is complete crap. the performance is bad, the sound is bad, the gun and gameplay is bad, the ai is bad, the story is bad. it's a boring game. it's really a shame about the studio, but it was already evident with prey mooncrash and youngblood that nothing good was to come
  4. ccarlosrubio
    Jul 16, 2022
    0
    Dishonored 1 y 2 son mis juegos favoritos.

    Dicho esto, creo que puede entenderse por qué le pongo un 0 a este juego. Es soporífero a más no poder. Aburre, simplemente dan ganas de quitarlo y ponerte a jugar a cualquier cosa que no sea esto. Este estudio ha hecho 3 juegos (Dishonored 1 y 2 con todos sus DLCs y Prey) que lejos de aburrirte, puedes pasártelos 10 veces y siempre descubres    Dishonored 1 y 2 son mis juegos favoritos.

    Dicho esto, creo que puede entenderse por qué le pongo un 0 a este juego. Es soporífero a más no poder. Aburre, simplemente dan ganas de quitarlo y ponerte a jugar a cualquier cosa que no sea esto. Este estudio ha hecho 3 juegos (Dishonored 1 y 2 con todos sus DLCs y Prey) que lejos de aburrirte, puedes pasártelos 10 veces y siempre descubres cosas nuevas y te divierte de formas distintas. En Deathloop puedes simplemente tirar hacia delante pegando tiros, llegar al boss, inflarlo a tiros y a correr, a otra cosa, a reiniciar otra puta vez el bucle. Tiene 0 carisma. Mientras que en Dishonored tenías una historia que te enganchaba e ibas descubriendo cosas poco a poco, pistas, distintas formas de acabar el nivel, distintas formas de acabar (o no) con tus enemigos... Aquí todo se reduce en: reinicia el bucle, te lías a tiros, consigues un par de pistas y un par de armas, te vas a otro sitio que has visitado ya 10 veces, haces lo mismo, reinicias bucle, lo mismo.... La quinta vez que visitas un escenario ya te cansa, porque te das cuenta que realmente no tienes mucho que hacer ahí salvo liarte a tiros. Las conversaciones que escuchas son banales, los bosses realmente te la pelan bastante ya que no conoces a ninguno realmente, te cansas de leer cosas a la media hora, entre tutoriales y cartas inútiles que te aportan información que te importa 10 mierdas...

    Una gran decepción viniendo de Arkane.    … Expand
  5. Antoniods
    May 6, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gran bel gioco di merda vecchia scuola bocciatissimo merita degli zero come voto, anonimo gioco poco carattere bruttissima ia sconsigliato il peggiore dei peggiori non godibile stupido noioso.… Expand
  6. PolishVPN
    Jun 16, 2022
    4
    If you're going to make a game that restrincts users with uncapable hardware, AT LEAST meke it work correctly, i have a RTX 2070 and there's no reason on why i had to reset my drivers just for it to allow me to play the game.

    Also the game, ironically, is insanely repetitive, you do the same exact thing for every mission.
  7. DreadStorm
    Apr 20, 2022
    3
    За последнее время я давно не видел более уныло Г!! Disрhonored это был шедевр!! А это просто помойка!! Идея может и хорошая - но исполнение напрочь отсутствует!
  8. SRKNZ
    Dec 24, 2022
    0
    Yet another poorly optimized game. Crashed on start up. Got a refund. Really in my view dev's need to do a lot better than this. Its a growing trend and it not acceptable. Got this one refunded.
  9. godzflash61
    Dec 6, 2021
    3
    big fan of Dishonored and Prey, deathloop doesnt catch the interesting point where i should stay playing the game, the character is good but story is lacking

    gameplay mechanic - mediocre
    story - mediocre
    art design - good
    level design - good
    graphic - mediocre
    optimization - bad
  10. Jackie_Jackson
    May 26, 2022
    3
    Не ожидал такой подставы от пацанов которые замутили дизоноред ах да эти же пацаны замутили и вторую часть хррр тьфу
  11. parallax_84
    May 31, 2022
    4
    It starts good but with each loop starts to wear you off ... The "bad" guys have no weight, you only learn things from them reading or by audiologs. It needed more cutscenes in my opinion also interactions with juliana are not enough. But the worst of all is after you gather all the clues and learn from them you execute your plan just to have some awful endings that doesn't explain nothingIt starts good but with each loop starts to wear you off ... The "bad" guys have no weight, you only learn things from them reading or by audiologs. It needed more cutscenes in my opinion also interactions with juliana are not enough. But the worst of all is after you gather all the clues and learn from them you execute your plan just to have some awful endings that doesn't explain nothing or close characters arc at all. I loved dishonored series but Arkane f*ckd it up with this one.
    The a.i is terrible and it doesn't get better by moving forward in the game like some people says.
    The concept wasn't wrong but it could have some more levels, and enemy variety (its all the same 5 npc's) what i mean is just because its a loop based game that doen't mean that has to be so damn repetitive, theres more they could have done for example more levels, weapon modifications,more cutscenes, better powers and not the same from dishonored and the list go on.    … Expand
  12. daryl83
    Jan 9, 2023
    1
    This game is horrible and overhyped. Menu system is horrible and outdated, the game is a repetitive mess, the characters are not likeable (annoying sounding protagonist and antagonist), and the game has tons of freezing and crashes. Avoid this trash!
  13. stratos_au
    Nov 30, 2021
    1
    Honestly, over pretentious game. Annoying voice overs from the protagonist and the antagonist. shooter mechanics are terrible, gameplay wise is boring , maps are really small and the enemy AI is terrible. I really wonder what game did the critics played since honestly this game is really bad. There is no real challenge by either the enemies or the progression, you could kill literallyHonestly, over pretentious game. Annoying voice overs from the protagonist and the antagonist. shooter mechanics are terrible, gameplay wise is boring , maps are really small and the enemy AI is terrible. I really wonder what game did the critics played since honestly this game is really bad. There is no real challenge by either the enemies or the progression, you could kill literally everyone on the map without really too many troubles.

    Really bad and not worth full price.    … Expand
  14. savvym
    Apr 27, 2023
    3
    I played it for 2 hours straight and was bored by it. I played stealthily and I noticed that AI is awful. They do not see you through the window of your apartment, not see you when you are loudly slashing their friends even when you just duck in plain sight 50 meters away but as soon as you stand up, they hear you even behind the wall. And when it comes to stand-off, they react veryI played it for 2 hours straight and was bored by it. I played stealthily and I noticed that AI is awful. They do not see you through the window of your apartment, not see you when you are loudly slashing their friends even when you just duck in plain sight 50 meters away but as soon as you stand up, they hear you even behind the wall. And when it comes to stand-off, they react very slowly, sometimes running in place and missing shots on me. Hacking their machines makes this game super easy. Furthermore, you can make them friendly and turn it against them which is just a terrible idea.


    The game is divided into 4-day stages and each is played in a different region, you always appear somewhere from underground. It is easy to run away, hide and you can die twice every loop. I thought to myself this game is very repetitive and I was curious whether it becomes more fun later on, I watched an IGN review, and they only praised the game and showed what I played already, they gave it 10 - masterpiece. Not reflecting the real quality. Objectively speaking the game has some terrible AI and interesting level design but is very demanding on mid-range gaming PCs. It has repetitive game-loops, useless character customization because it is first person, and the story is not really funny as it is trying to be not serious.


    Then I watched a different review from Classic game reviews and the guy mentioned the problems I have with the game giving it real objective review and IGN proves once again it breeds incompetent reviewers who are not talking about the game issues, moreover, say it is the best game.    … Expand
  15. Djinn
    Aug 5, 2022
    4
    I couldn't get past the tutorial section as the game kept soft-locking and forcing me to start over. Either I am very unlucky or this game is very buggy, or both.
  16. Soullex
    Nov 15, 2022
    2
    Cidden, nasıl bu kadar kötü bir oyun olabilir ya. Farklı bir şey denedik diyip, aynı bölümleri size zorla oynatıp duruyor.
  17. ruslannikulin
    May 27, 2022
    4
    Игра безумно скучная. Халтура: создали четыре относительно небольшие карты, которые мы будем проходить раз по 10 каждую, если не больше. Скучный нудный геймплей, неинтересные персонажи, неоригинальная идея, так как уже есть с десяток фильмов про петлю времени, данная концепция подходит для небольшого инди-проекта на три часа, не больше. Единственный плюс - это стилистика и звук. ОднозначноИгра безумно скучная. Халтура: создали четыре относительно небольшие карты, которые мы будем проходить раз по 10 каждую, если не больше. Скучный нудный геймплей, неинтересные персонажи, неоригинальная идея, так как уже есть с десяток фильмов про петлю времени, данная концепция подходит для небольшого инди-проекта на три часа, не больше. Единственный плюс - это стилистика и звук. Однозначно худший проект от Arkane Studios, не рекомендую.… Expand
  18. vova22379
    Sep 10, 2022
    2
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  19. davitolucena
    Jul 1, 2023
    3
    Jogo estremamente pesado exige um PC de pelo menos 5 mil reais para ser jogado ainda bem que ele chegou no geforce Now para ser possível jogado em PC ruins em estão de gameplay tá boa melhor que dishonored e história é confusa no começo mais que você vai jogando vai ficando melhor diferente dos jogos da ubisoft que começa bem e depois piora
  20. melon9106
    Jun 4, 2022
    4
    Its a mess. A not well made mess. Messy mechanics, messy narrative and messy characters. Not recommended.
  21. WanderinMelmoth
    Dec 21, 2022
    2
    It's bland and repetitive, the latter being a design choice. I did not like the art style either - looks like Arkane's other game Prey. It plays very much like Dishonored (another Arkane title). If you like the titles I mentioned you might enjoy Deathloop as it just blends all that together and adds rogue-like elements.
    The gunplay is underwhelming. Overall another unimpressive Arkane title.
  22. Max1Mka
    May 27, 2022
    3
    Логающий кусок кала, спасибо конечно за озвучку, но игра скучная и почти не играбельна
  23. bokarsh-z
    Sep 21, 2022
    4
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    only worth 30 dollar
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    -unoptimized, stupid ai , very rebitive boring recycled from dishonored in a bad way and only 4 small maps.
    -play dishonored instead.
  24. wudookid
    Sep 24, 2022
    3
    I love the visual style, concept and even gunplay is not that bad. But optimization is just a hell. I mean I would be OK with such optimization on release date, BUT NOT after a year after release. Try it ONLY if you have a Xbox (& PC) GamePass and you are not getting annoyed with random stutters at ANY video quality/settings/resolution...
  25. DivineFaith
    Dec 31, 2022
    2
    Unfortunately, I didn't really like the game.
    In the beginning, I didn't really know how everything worked, and I didn't know until halfway through the game.
    The graphics were good, but I often had glaring FPS fluctuations.
    The story I found really boring and not captivating.
    The gameplay is cool but poorly implemented, as it's really annoying to get back to the same environment every time.
  26. realWhiteMan
    Feb 4, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  27. TitaniumDragon
    Jul 14, 2022
    4
    The problem with roguelite games is repetition. You need really good core gameplay to make a roguelite or roguelike work, otherwise it just ends up repetitive and boring the player. Without greater challenges to overcome and interesting enemies to fight, it can quickly become tedious – and reusing the same few areas over and over again can make this even worse.

    Thus, it is strange that    The problem with roguelite games is repetition. You need really good core gameplay to make a roguelite or roguelike work, otherwise it just ends up repetitive and boring the player. Without greater challenges to overcome and interesting enemies to fight, it can quickly become tedious – and reusing the same few areas over and over again can make this even worse.

    Thus, it is strange that an AAA studio like Arkane fell into this trap.

    The core conceit of Deathloop is that you are trapped on an island in a time loop with a bunch of people who want to party for all eternity (the Eternalists). A few things quickly become clear:

    1) Only you and Juliana, your nemesis, remember things between loops.
    2) There are four areas or “levels” in the game, and you can visit up to four “levels” in a day, either repeating the same ones or going to different ones.
    3) After you’ve visited four places (or died three times), the loop resets.
    4) There are eight Visionaries, leaders amongst the Eternalists, who are the core of the loop. You must kill all eight of them in a single loop to win.
    5) None of the Visionaries will naturally hang out with each other, as a deliberate means of making it impossible to break the loop.

    Thus, the core of the game is to figure out how to manipulate the time loop in order to get the visionaries to leave the areas they hang out in normally and go to other areas, grouping up so that you can kill a number of them at once.

    Unfortunately, while this SOUNDS really cool, in real life, the game basically is bimodal – each Visionary has at most one way to manipulate them into doing this, and some don’t have any, so there is a very particular solution that you must follow to solve the game. The game pretty much leads you to this, though, so it isn’t overly hard to figure out – which also kind of robs the game of a feeling of agency.

    Indeed, the game is remarkably inflexible for being a game about a time loop where your goal is to manipulate the loop to your advantage – there are very few ways of doing so, and most of them aren’t particularly interesting or exciting. While it is cool to show up “prepared” to a few things, by and large it is pretty mediocre, and after the first couple loops the game runs out of tricks.

    Rather than being a puzzle, it’s just a kind of drawn-out fairly linear affair, where you can attack different questlines in whatever order, but eventually you’ll figure out what you’re doing.

    The fact that you can “save” equipment across runs after you complete the second major questline also means that you don’t really have to interact with 99% of the weapon drops in the game for loops after the first couple you go through, which further increases the repetition, especially once you figure out where certain key weapons are and farm them a bit so you can have them every level.

    The enemies in the game are all normal humans, with only the visionaries presenting any sort of challenge; even still, you will quickly become more dangerous than they are and be able to rather easily overwhelm them.

    That leaves Julianna, which, in normal gameplay, can be an enemy human player who invades your game and tries to kill you – a frustrating experience when you are trying to make progress, but at least a somewhat neat idea. Unfortunately, playing in this mode also doesn’t allow you to pause the game at all, which is really annoying, as even if there isn’t a Juliana around, you still can’t pause.

    If you turn off the multiplayer, she becomes an AI, and while more powerful than the Visionaries, she’s still not terribly difficult to overcome, removing the only real challenge the game has.

    The only thing Deathloop really has is style. Deathloop is set in faux-1960s, though it quickly becomes clear that this is some sort of alternate reality. It has some dialogue between Colt (the protagonist) and Juliana, and some floating text along with notes and tape recordings in the environment which help you piece together the story. But these mostly run out within a few loops, with only a trickle of story remaining afterwards, and because you can do things in whatever order, you can figure out many of the game’s secrets “early”, and none of them are particularly difficult to see coming.

    In the end, I was disappointed in this game. It was not up to the quality of Prey, it lacked variety in the challenges it threw at you, it was overly repetitive (and too long relative to the amount of content it had), the plot was okay at best, and the ending was a disappointing little cutscene.

    There are a lot of better games than this one; if you like the style and the core conceit, it might be okay, but it will never be great.    … Expand
  28. sergeidart
    Apr 30, 2022
    4
    It's the worst arkane game to date.
    With those clever level design and tricky story no mechanics is working as intended. Lack of anticheat is killing whole idea of invasions. Color grade destroyed by real drop chances which is high for epic weapons. And no such exploration you may see. You can pick-up every object in the map without reading and it will appear next session as floating    It's the worst arkane game to date.
    With those clever level design and tricky story no mechanics is working as intended. Lack of anticheat is killing whole idea of invasions. Color grade destroyed by real drop chances which is high for epic weapons. And no such exploration you may see. You can pick-up every object in the map without reading and it will appear next session as floating bullet.
    Too easy to be interested in, too unfair to compete.    … Expand
  29. MegaCriticsOP
    Nov 5, 2021
    0
    Truly in style of AMAZON! Actually 0 attention to the people and "something" (sort of something) to the product. By watching what games they make i begin beliving in UFO, gray/green people or some other trash. CUS THIS IS NO WAY MADE BY HUMANS IN 2021!
  30. ImNotBribeable
    Feb 5, 2022
    3
    And you thought EA Games were critical bribefests. All this game is, is....just...there...
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Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 17, 2022
    100
    No need to think twice, we had a lot of time loop games. But Deathloop can get the most out of all elements. And whether you're protecting the loop or destroying it, don't forget to die a few times, it's fun.
  2. Riot Pixels
    Nov 19, 2021
    77
    Too much hand-holding, some glaring omissions in the narrative and its somewhat weak AI do let Deathloop down, but still, it’s a rare and exciting game made for both fans of Corvo Attano and those who never set foot in the Empire of the Isles before.
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  3. Game Over Online
    Nov 1, 2021
    70
    I applaud Arkane for switching up the Dishonored stealth/action formula here, and for addressing a few of the issues Dishonored had. Deathloop just feels too limited by comparison, though, and too repetitive by half besides. I know a lot of people who really like it, but it fell pretty flat for me.
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